Yesterday after finishing the panel for the novel I decided to take a little break and found myself sketching this. So much for taking a break from painting Anyway, recently my friend and I were talking about Angelina discussing how gorgeous she was once she was young and how she unfortunately lost most of her charm now. And few days ago I stumbled upon this old photo and totally fell in love with it. Such kind of paintings is really not what I usually do, but this one deserved to be an exception. Tribute to the icon of beauty 'cause Angelina truly used to be one. Once.

Dedicated to my two amazing friends and who also happen to be big Angelina fans.

I'd like to refine some parts more, but no time for that. Lemme me know if you wanna see the steps for this one.

Angelina Jolie, a beautiful woman and a great artist! I also think that Angie has lost much of that charm that she had when I was younger, as we can see on your beautiful picture. Actually is like me, before I started out facial hair, a lot!!........bulges on my arms, before that me skin fell to shreds, or when I was two whole arms. But now I must fix this with a lot of makeup!! (^_^)(^_^)

I came across a photo of Angelina Jolie in a magazine back in 1999, before she was 'super-famous' as she is today. I thought she was stunning. She has a lot of features which make her attractive, most of which are apparent, some not so much.

I think a surprising amount of her appeal is in her eyes. Her pupils almost always look dilated. Given that the pupils dilate when we look at the people we're fond of, Angelina's gaze has the effect of making people feel pleasant. It's such an incredibly subtle feature of her's, but it's arguably her most formidable weapon. When we combine her welcoming eyes with very full lips and deep hair which contrasts her eyes, she obtains an exotic appeal.

It comes as no surprise to see that you've incorporated all of this into your painting of her. You've done a marvelous job capturing her enticing eyes. I also really like the work you did on her hair. More of your lovely work on a lovely lady.

I totally agree with you. Back then she had such a unique set of features that made her beauty special, one of a kind.

Btw., this is a very curious observation about her pupils. I've heard about that dilation thing (and a joke about looking at own reflection in the mirror ), but never paid much attention to this. Now I'm puzzled - how on earth are they dilated when a bright light shines in her face at this photo? It should be visa versa...

I'm not suggesting that her eyes are actually always dilated, I'm simply suggesting that they look dilated compared to the eyes of most people. That is, if I'm right, the inner circumference of her irises are larger than those of most people. By extension, her pupils appear larger all the time, and hence, relative to most people, her eyes look dilated.

Of course, it's also possible that I have no idea what I'm talking about! Basically, once she became really famous and started showing up on magazines all the time, I noticed that she had really 'interesting' eyes. My best explanation for that is that her pupils are larger than normal. Again, I could easily be wrong. I've never measured her eyes!

are you insane did you just not see my crazy swirls of delight? what good is the reference if the painting isn't, huh?? if i'm delighted it's because you've done a brilliant job, it's absolutely wonderful

omg I'm sooooo in love amazing shading it look so real too, I couldn't stop looking to the hair ,, amazing ,, how did you do that ? and you really captured her face ,, I thought I know all her pics can't remember this

aaaaannnnnd No she still gorgeous and charm!! her beauty didn't fade away she's just so skinny now !!

Hair is my favourite part, never gives me troubles. If I had time I would have refined everything even more, hair included, but there was none, I wasn't supposed to be painting this at all

Really?!! Double success If such Angelina expert as you doesn't know this photo then it's awesome. I really hate just strictly following the reference, I like to have some creative approach, but for this photo I decided to make an exception since I also thought it was rare. Moreover the original was very small so I kind of "enlarged" it

Ah, I dunno, Ana brought this topic recently I totally agreed with her. She's so skinny now that her features seem exaggerated and this hair color totally doesn't suit her. Not to mention black dresses make her look even more skinny. Somebody kill her stylist.